ipaddress module fails on rfc4007 scoped IPv6 addresses

[JeremyMcMillan]

BPO	34788
Nosy	@terryjreedy, @ncoghlan, @asvetlov, @lisroach, @miss-islington, @tirkarthi, @mic4ael, @opavlyuk, @ohwgiles
PRs	bpo-34788: Add support for scoped IPv6 addresses #13772 bpo-44012: IPv6Address.exploded with scope_id #25824

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closed_at = <Date 2020-02-26.14:43:17.234>
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labels = ['type-feature', 'library', '3.9']
title = 'ipaddress module fails on rfc4007 scoped IPv6 addresses'
updated_at = <Date 2021-05-02.22:00:23.352>
user = 'https://bugs.python.org/JeremyMcMillan'

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[JeremyMcMillan]

ipaddress module has no support for scoped IPv6 addresses which prevents the use of ipaddress.ip_address() and ipaddress.IPv6Address() with (always available by default on IPv6 systems) RFC conforming IPv6 link local addresses that specify interface scope.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4007

This is bad because interface scope is required for connect() and bind() operations on multihomed machines, and virtualized or software defined networking will make this case very common.

eg.

>>> ipaddress.IPv6Address('fe80::dead:dead:beef:ffff')
IPv6Address('fe80::dead:dead:beef:ffff')
>>> ipaddress.IPv6Address('fe80::dead:dead:beef:ffff%eth0')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/ipaddress.py", line 1900, in __init__
    self._ip = self._ip_int_from_string(addr_str)
  File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/ipaddress.py", line 1716, in _ip_int_from_string
    raise AddressValueError("%s in %r" % (exc, ip_str)) from None
ipaddress.AddressValueError: Only hex digits permitted in 'ffff%eth0' in 'fe80::dead:dead:beef:ffff%eth0'
>>> ipaddress.IPv6Interface('fe80::dead:dead:beef:ffff%eth0')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/ipaddress.py", line 2060, in __init__
    IPv6Address.__init__(self, addr[0])
  File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/ipaddress.py", line 1900, in __init__
    self._ip = self._ip_int_from_string(addr_str)
  File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/ipaddress.py", line 1716, in _ip_int_from_string
    raise AddressValueError("%s in %r" % (exc, ip_str)) from None
ipaddress.AddressValueError: Only hex digits permitted in 'ffff%eth0' in 'fe80::dead:dead:beef:ffff%eth0'

[JeremyMcMillan]

subclass workaround implementation example

https://github.com/isbm/salt/blob/976fe19d73ca6bf5df375eaa15d77ce4a5a54b7a/salt/_compat.py#L125

[lisroach]

I think this is something that would be good to have. Jeremy would you care to make a PR for this?

[mic4ael]

I would like to fix this problem if nobody is against that. I stumbled upon the very same thing recently and I think it would be a nice opportunity to contribute.

[JeremyMcMillan]

I think the code in SaltStack to handle scoped IPv6 addresses is mature, so please look at these examples.

https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/2085cb1078f187adf82a0cf19b39d350ff1bbd50/salt/_compat.py#L125

[opavlyuk]

Pull request needs a review.

[terryjreedy]

FWIW: Marking Component: Documentation means that the issue is only about changing the doc. Hence the auto-assignment to the nebulous docs group, which no longer exists in the form it once did. Enhancement issues nearly always need a doc change but are not marked 'Documentation'. I am not sure what Jeremy's original intent was, but the actual PR is mostly code implementing and testing the newly documented addition.